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What's up fellas,
I'm new here, and was looking around the forum and figured I chime in with my two cents regarding Vista. I recently was able to get a copy of Vista Business through the University I'm at, and figured I'd try it to see what it was like. (I was planning a fresh nuke & install on my laptop anyway so it seemed like an okay idea) Anyway, it installed just fine without any problems, and the visual effects seemed to be working okay considering it was a couple year old laptop.
To answer Prince's question
1. It's not the worst OS on earth, but it definitely has its fair share of bugs, quirks, and compatibility issues. All in all I wasn't too thrilled about it and have since reverted back to a Ubuntu/WinXP Pro dual boot situation. (Which I was planning on doing anyway)
2. It definitely ran slower than XP did, however that was to be expected since I had all the Aero bells and whistles running at the highest resolution plus all those widgets running. I'm not saying that it was so slow that it reduced productivity that much, but it was definitely noticable.
3. My laptops specs are P4 1.7 GHz, 512 MB ram with 256 MB ATI video card.
If you are unsure about installing Vista or not a big fan of MS in general, I would suggest staying away from Vista for awhile. WinXP is more stable and is in general way easier to use. If you enjoy having all those fancy visual effects, but don't want to buy a Mac, and aren't afraid if Linux, I suggest you look into running Beryl on Ubuntu.
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